Selects: The Great War of the Worlds Panic Myth

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🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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On Halloween 1938 young radio star Orson Welles scared the pants off of America with a fictional news bulletin claiming Martians had landed and were destroying the country. People across the nation ran wild with panic in the streets – or did they? Listen to this classic episode to find out.

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1:00.8	Hi there everyone, it's me Josh and for this week's select I've chosen our episode on the War of the
1:06.0	World's Myth from November 2020.
1:09.0	One of the great myths of the 20th century is that Orson Well's 1938 War of the World's
1:14.0	broadcast set off a mass panic in the United States as rubs from all corners of
1:19.1	the country grabbed their shotguns and ran senselessly through the streets and
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